Dave Davies

While you were writing this book, I'm wondering what was happening in the country on race relations. I mean a lot has happened in the last few years. I'm wondering what events might have informed your thinking as you were writing this.

This is your ninth book and your last one, The Underground Railroad, won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize selected by Oprah Winfrey, which I'm sure boosted sales a lot and gave it a much bigger profile. As you finished and published this book, did it feel like a completely different experience because of where your career is?

This is your ninth book and your last one, The Underground Railroad, won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize selected by Oprah Winfrey, which I'm sure boosted sales a lot and gave it a much bigger profile. As you finished and published this book, did it feel like a completely different experience because of where your career is?

This is your ninth book and your last one, The Underground Railroad, won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize selected by Oprah Winfrey, which I'm sure boosted sales a lot and gave it a much bigger profile. As you finished and published this book, did it feel like a completely different experience because of where your career is?

Is it true you had to sign 15,000 copies of this one?

Is it true you had to sign 15,000 copies of this one?

Is it true you had to sign 15,000 copies of this one?

All right. Well, congratulations on the book. Colson Whitehead, it's been great to have you back. Thanks so much.

All right. Well, congratulations on the book. Colson Whitehead, it's been great to have you back. Thanks so much.

All right. Well, congratulations on the book. Colson Whitehead, it's been great to have you back. Thanks so much.

Novelist Colson Whitehead. His novel The Nickel Boys has been adapted into a film now in theaters. Whitehead won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his previous novel, The Underground Railroad, which was adapted into a miniseries of the same name by Barry Jenkins.

Novelist Colson Whitehead. His novel The Nickel Boys has been adapted into a film now in theaters. Whitehead won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his previous novel, The Underground Railroad, which was adapted into a miniseries of the same name by Barry Jenkins.

Novelist Colson Whitehead. His novel The Nickel Boys has been adapted into a film now in theaters. Whitehead won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his previous novel, The Underground Railroad, which was adapted into a miniseries of the same name by Barry Jenkins.

After we take a short break, guest jazz critic Martin Johnson will review a new recording featuring two of the giants of jazz, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson, in concert in 1966. This is Fresh Air.

After we take a short break, guest jazz critic Martin Johnson will review a new recording featuring two of the giants of jazz, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson, in concert in 1966. This is Fresh Air.

After we take a short break, guest jazz critic Martin Johnson will review a new recording featuring two of the giants of jazz, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson, in concert in 1966. This is Fresh Air.

Mention of the label Blue Note Records will evoke a sound familiar to most jazz fans. Pristine, warm, as if the greatest musicians of the 60s were playing in your living room. Yet very few live recordings exist of the stars from the label's golden era. But that's been changing. A new recording features two giants of jazz, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson in concert from 1966.

Mention of the label Blue Note Records will evoke a sound familiar to most jazz fans. Pristine, warm, as if the greatest musicians of the 60s were playing in your living room. Yet very few live recordings exist of the stars from the label's golden era. But that's been changing. A new recording features two giants of jazz, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson in concert from 1966.

Mention of the label Blue Note Records will evoke a sound familiar to most jazz fans. Pristine, warm, as if the greatest musicians of the 60s were playing in your living room. Yet very few live recordings exist of the stars from the label's golden era. But that's been changing. A new recording features two giants of jazz, McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson in concert from 1966.

Guest jazz critic Martin Johnson says you can hear jazz changing in several ways.